Innovators in Rural Community Economic Development

Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Program Outcome Funding

Tags: Agriculture, Natural Resource Based Economic Development, Service

Client Name: Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (NESARE), University of Vermont

Client Type: Education/Research Institution, Federal Agency

Year: 1999, 2000

Location: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Vermont, Washington DC

Yellow Wood Associates, Inc. worked with NESARE in piloting an outcome-funding approach to grantmaking. The work included two year’s participation in the design process, proposal reviews, interviews with potential grantees, committee work to select grantees, and process documentation.